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Long Live the Family - Friends of the Family: The English Home and Its Guardians, 1850–1940. By George K. Behlmer. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii+252. $60.00 (cloth). - The Family Story: Blood, Contract and Intimacy, 1830–1960. By Leonore Davidoff, Megan Doolittle, Janet Fink, and Katherine Holden. London and New York: Longman, 1999. Pp. x+297. $89.95 (cloth); $43.00 (paper). - A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England. By John Tosh. New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xii+252. $35.00 (cloth).
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1 Population Studies, Population and Development Review, and Demography represent, among others, the number-crunching branch of the field.
2 For examples of the disaggregating of couples, see some of the contributions to Gillis, John R., Tilly, Louise A., and Levine, David, eds., The European Experience of Declining Fertility: A Quiet Revolution, 1850–1970 (Oxford, 1992)Google Scholar, particularly those by Angus McLaren, Wally Seccombe, and Jane and Peter Schneider. My own contribution, “Mothers and the State in Britain,” probably lays too much stress on how many children wives desired as a factor in the fertility decline. The position that sex and contraception were primarily a man's business before World War II at any rate is very well put by Fisher, Kate, in “‘She Was Quite Satisfied with the Arrangements Made’: Gender and Birth Control in Britain, 1920–1950,” Past and Present, no. 169 (2000): 161–93Google Scholar.
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